496 [Oct. 7, 



Stated Meeting^ October 7, 1881. 



Present, 12 members. 



President, Feedeeick Fealey, in the Cliair. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from tlie Society 

 at Stnttgard (105, 106, List) ; the K. Danish Society (107, 108, 

 XViii); the Dutch Society at Harlem (105, 106, List); the E. 

 Academy at Amsterdam (106) ; the Zoological Society at 

 Amsterdam (107, 108, XViii) ; the Agricultural Society at 

 Lyons (102-106) ; the E. S. of Edinburg (106) ; the Geol. Sur- 

 vey of Canada (108) ; and the University of the City of New 

 York (108.) 



Letters of envoy were received from the Hungarian Academy ; 

 the Eoyal Academy and Zoological Society at Amsterdam ; 

 the Central Statistical Bureau, Dutch Society and Teyler 

 Foundation at Harlem ; and the Natural History Society at 

 Hanover. 



A letter requesting a copy of Proceedings No. 92, was re- 

 ceived from the Meteorological Institute at Vienna. 



A letter respecting the " American Catalogue " was received 

 from Armstrong & Co., N. Y. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan ; the Eussian, Prussian, Hungarian and Dutch 

 Academies, and the Academies at Eome, Turin and Dijon; 

 the Natural History Societies at Moscow, Hanover and Stutt- 

 gard ; the Observator}^ at St. Petersburg ; the Geographical, 

 Anthropological and Zoological Societies and Geological Insti- 

 tute, in Vienna ; the- German Geological Societ}^ in Berlin ; the 

 Statistical Bureau at Harlem ; the Zoological Society at Am- 

 sterdam ; the Entomological Society and Statistical Bureau at 

 Brussels ; the Geological Committee of Italy ; the Guimet 

 Museum and Agricultural Society at Lyons ; the Geographical 

 Society and Society of Sciences at Bordeaux ; the Anthropo- 

 logical, Ethnographical, Antiquarian Societies, Polytechnic 

 School, and Political and Literary Eeview, at Paris; the Society 

 at Cherbourg ; the Victoria Institute, Meteorological, Geograph- 



